Memoir of Joseph Leidy, M. D. , Ll. D.

Memoir of Joseph Leidy, M. D. , Ll. D.

Author: Henry C. (Henry Cadwalader) Chapman

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2012-08

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9781290512893

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Memoir of Joseph Leidy, M.D., LL. D (Classic Reprint)

Memoir of Joseph Leidy, M.D., LL. D (Classic Reprint)

Author: Henry C. Chapman

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-20

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 9780484199131

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Excerpt from Memoir of Joseph Leidy, M.D., LL. D The ancestors of Dr. Joseph Leidy were of french-german ex traction and Came to this country as missionaries. Mr. Philip Leidy, his father, was born in Montgomery County, Penna, December 5, 1791, and removed, when a young man, to Philadelphia, where he engaged in the trade of a hatter. He soon retired from business in which he had been unusually Successful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Memoir of Joseph Leidy, M.D., LL.D.

Memoir of Joseph Leidy, M.D., LL.D.

Author: Henry C 1845-1909 Chapman

Publisher: Andesite Press

Published: 2015-08-09

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9781297603686

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Memoir of Joseph Leidy, M. D. , Ll. D. - Primary Source Edition

Memoir of Joseph Leidy, M. D. , Ll. D. - Primary Source Edition

Author: Henry C. 1845-1909 Chapman

Publisher: Nabu Press

Published: 2014-02

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9781294748946

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Biographical Memoir Of Joseph Leidy, 1823-1891

Biographical Memoir Of Joseph Leidy, 1823-1891

Author: Henry Fairfield Osborn

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781020190902

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This biography offers an illuminating portrait of Joseph Leidy, one of the most important American scientists of the 19th century. Leidy's groundbreaking work in paleontology, parasitology, and anatomy made him a key figure in the scientific community, and this book provides a comprehensive overview of his life, work, and legacy. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


Biographical Memoir of Joseph Leidy, 1823-1891

Biographical Memoir of Joseph Leidy, 1823-1891

Author: Henry Fairfield Osborn

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9781230463667

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... ica," of 1879. In the meantime, however, he began to renew his notices of vertebrate remains of the Eastern States, especially from the phosphate beds of South Carolina, which he collected in his two memoirs of 1874 and 1879." In 1880 he describes the fauna of the bone cave in Pennsylvania and gives a second paper on Bathygnathus. Occasional contributions follow in succeeding years on the horses and peccaries, and in 1884 there begin his notices of the vertebrate fossils from Florida, which continued until 1889, when Leidy's last important contributions to vertebrate palaeontology were published in the Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science.' By an interesting coincidence these animals, which were partly obtained by Leidy's intimate friend, Mr. Joseph Willcox, were closely related to those from the Loup Fork of Nebraska, which Leidy had begun to describe in 1856, forty years before. EVOLUTION. From the time of his first paper of 1847 on the fossil horse of America until his last paper of 1889, "On Hippotherium and Rhinoceros from Florida," Leidy was constantly accumulating facts for Darwin. It was a common saying that it is "a simple matter to construct the building after the materials are supplied." As a close observer of affinities of structure he anticipated by many years both Cope and Marsh in building up the materials for the phylogeny of the horses, camels, rhinoceroses, and other groups of ungulates. There does not seem to be a single case in which Leidy failed to recognize affinity. He showed extraordinary acuteness in distinguishing the various "Description of vertebrate remains chiefly from the phosphate beds of South Carolina. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 8, 1877, pp. 209-261. Notice of a new and...